Role of Institutions in Students Health and Wellbeing

Document Type:Essay

Subject Area:Religion

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Ideally, student's well-being plays an instrumental role within the institution since health has a direct influence on the level of performance of every student. Poor mental health has a server consequence for students. It may result in eventualities like poor academic performance, school dropout and in rare cases; it results in suicides especially when there is a lack of support from the university health department (Hunt, Justin, and Daniel 7). Therefore, it is important for every institution to come up with well-laid plans on handling health and well being of every student. In this regards, this paper seeks to understand the role of institutes to support student health and well being. Moreover, as a result of the facts on the effects and the advantages of this service, most of the institutions outsource services from public facilities that are outside the school system.

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Medical health services within institutions are in most cases offered by staffs with adequate training on matters of health care. A combination of knowledge in both education and health is instrumental to the staffs since it gives them the best platform to perfectly handle the complexity in school culture, although it is a requirement for the institutions to put more efforts to achieve the education targets. Most of the staffs are of the perception that their school-based approaches put them in a better place as opposed to the school employed peers since such personalities might not have the required knowledge to understand the dynamism of the school setting. However, the school policies restrict the staffs employed by schools on the kind of services they should offer and this limits their ability to extensively harness some of the pertinent issues students face.

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The approach incorporates the universal strategy for every student and therefore, proceeded by interventions that help the identified students with specific risks and eventually the treatment for the students that require immediate attention. This approach is instrumental in the essence that it puts the school and teachers are better placed to give various supports to the students as well as the creation of classroom and the entire school environment that effectively support learning of all students regardless of the health status. Schools within the settings of the first class countries are miles ahead in the delivery of health education and all the services surrounding its application. Such institutions have always ensured they offer immunization programs, health and sex education to the students (Richard and Edward 68).

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